Improvement in bale-ties



F. COOK.

BALE-TIE.

Patented March 27,1877.

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N PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D (Jv UNITED STATES PTENT OFFICE.

FREDERIG COOK, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

, Specification formingpart ofLetters Patent No. 1 88,725, dated March 27, 1877; application filed November 22, 1876.

. To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIO' 000K, of

' New Orleans, State of Louisiana, have in vented a new and useful Improvement in Bale- Ties, which improvement is fully set forth in V .the following specification, reference'being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a face view of buckle and fixed and free ends of theband. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through A B of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a face view of the buckle without bands inserted. Fig. 4 is an end view of buckle.

Fig. 5 is an end view of other end of buckle and a section through band, showing how it is held into the buckle by edges of the recess 0 being pressed or riveted over the edges of the band.

The object of my invention is to produce a tie whose buckle is fixed. permanently to the band end withoutioopin g, punching, or separate rivets, and to produce a tie that can be adjusted handily to any portion of the band without any loops in band or punched holes, also a tie whose buckle cannot be. removed sides F of which rise about twice the thickness of the band above the plane of the recess E. After the band end G is laid into the recess E the corners or edges Gare pressed or I riveted over the edges of the band G, and fix the buckle securely to one end of the band.

The buckle is provided with an open-sided mortise, H. To apply it to fasten the band around a bale, the free end of band should be passed through the lower channels of press under the bale, then passed through upper channels. The free end will then hang down. Theoperator takes the fixed end in one hand and slightly tips the buckle, while with the other hand he slightly bends the free end inward toward the bale. The buckle then is passed sidewise over the point offree band, where the slack is taken up and run up on the band until tight. 1t nips at once, and when the bale is released from pressure its expansion draws the band down into the recess 1, and the sides J of which keep it in place. Fig. 2 shows the position the free end K will assume when the tie is drawn tight.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cotton-bale tie, a recess with elevated sides or strips for riveting or pressing over onto the edges of fixed end of band lying in such recess, so as to fasten the buckle or tie to the band by means of such side rivetingstrips.

2. The bent end L of fixed end of the band in combination with side riveting-strips for fastening band to buckle.

3. An adjustable bale-tie with fixed opensided buckle without loops in band, perforations, cuts, or rivets.

FREDERIO COOK.

Witnesses:

W. R. RICHARDSON, FRED. ZEUGEL. 

